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Platonic Myth And Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration
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Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.
| Author: Robert Zaslavsky |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Apr 25, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 144 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1532906838 |
| ISBN-13: 9781532906831 |
Platonic Myth And Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration
$10.65
Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.
| Author: Robert Zaslavsky |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Apr 25, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 144 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1532906838 |
| ISBN-13: 9781532906831 |
